Motivational Quotes

Change

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

- Dewar, Jeff

Best Quotes about Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan